[b-hebrew] Lot as a Hostage
Uri Hurwitz
uhurwitz at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 24 21:15:21 EST 2008
Bill Rea wrote, inter alia:
"I often found it difficult to understand why he [Lemkhe] and
TLT [Thompson] used the words they did to describe their views
as they were often using them in very non-standard ways,
ways which would be almost certainlymisunderstood by the
causal reader "
Both of these gentlemen spent paractically their entire careers
in an effort to denude the historical narratives of the HB, till
Neo-Assyrian times, of any scholarly value. They made their
position clear in dozens of publications. Their views and
specific arguments were refuted, sometimes one by one,
by many scholars.
I don't know what what you mean by describing their words as
"very non- standard". It is true that Thomas Thompson often
uses an opaque style, but this is far from being "non standard",
neither is it confined to some biblical scholars. Some consider
a bombastic and convoluted style an inadequate cover for
paucity of thought.
Uri Hurwitz
Great Neck, NY
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